https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53221#M1769 <P>When trying to authenticate to the API I keep getting Login Failed messages. </P> <P>I have changed the admin password as the docs suggest. Should I be logging in with admin?</P> <P>Are there any server configs I should check?</P> <P>Thanks</P> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:28:36 GMT johandk 2011-03-03T17:28:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53221#M1769 <P>When trying to authenticate to the API I keep getting Login Failed messages. </P> <P>I have changed the admin password as the docs suggest. Should I be logging in with admin?</P> <P>Are there any server configs I should check?</P> <P>Thanks</P> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:28:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53221#M1769 johandk 2011-03-03T17:28:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53222#M1770 <P>How are you trying to authenticate? The simplest way is to use HTTP basic auth and pass credentials with every call. Are you using the /services/auth/login call? Have you tried using your credentials to connect to the management port using a browser?</P> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:55:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53222#M1770 Stephen_Sorkin 2011-03-05T11:55:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53223#M1771 <P>Seems like overkill to do http basic auth on every request. Anyway, I figured it out. My http client lib wasn't sending the username, password values correctly. All is well now</P> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:17:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53223#M1771 johandk 2011-03-10T15:17:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53224#M1772 <P>The mime type should be application/x-www-form-urlencoded in the post request. My http lib wasn't doing this out of the box.</P> Fri, 20 May 2011 09:07:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53224#M1772 johandk 2011-05-20T09:07:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53225#M1773 <P>I have the same problem. So could you be more detailed in your explanation for this. </P> <P>Thanks</P> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:50:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Cant-authenticate-with-Splunk-API/m-p/53225#M1773 rishiehari 2012-12-14T12:50:33Z